On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Paul Querna wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Hyrum K. Wright > <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: >> I hope the holidays have been good for everybody in the Subversion >> community. In between spending some quality time with family, and eating >> more than I ought, I've done a bit thinking about Subversion in 2010, what >> I'd like to see happen, and some goals that we can work toward as a >> community. Here's my list (in no particular order): >> >> * Release 1.7 with wc-ng and obliterate support >> >> * Build our developer community >> >> * Finish joining the ASF and dissolve SVN Corp >> >> * Talk to users more >> >> * Build out our web presence on s.a.o. >> >> * Profit! (well, maybe not...) >> >> Each of these probably deserves it's own thread for more in-depth >> discussion, but it's useful to have a high-level view. What are your plans >> for Subversion in 2010? > > As brought up in the other replies, I think the stated goal of > Subversion 1.8 should be something like: > > "Profile everything, be faster at everything"
That's a *great* suggestion. > git has done this constantly, and we see the results, sure some of > what they do is messy, but Apache projects in general have always > taken the time to get architectures right, and do the execution of a > design well. I think really it's a question of resources. I wish we had a small group (~3 people) whose entire role was to do profiling and performance improvements. Another group for regressions and bug fixes. Another for web stuff and doc tasks. And then a somewhat larger group of folks focused on development. This may sound like the antithesis of open source, but it sometimes feels to me like we're very under-resourced, and what resources we do have aren't focused. I don't know how to solve either problem, short of increased corporate involvement or a massive PR blitz in the open source community. -Hyrum
